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Definition of Precisians
1. precisian [n] - See also: precisian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precisians
Literary usage of Precisians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Ile wal of Italy, and that country breeds not precisians that way, ... These men
for all the world like our precisians be, Who, for some cross or saint they ..."
2. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1860)
"... (though open to objection on the part of precisians in etymology) as conveniently
designating the peculiar attribute of nerve-fibres generally. ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"These men . . . like our precisians be, Who for some Cross or Saint they in the
window see Will pluck down all the Church. 1614. Time's Whistle [EETS], 10, ..."
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